From my "home town" just won it from Spink/ US auction! AV Goldgulden ND Jülich Mint Herzogtum of Jülich Reinald IV Duke of Jülich/ Gülders (Gelderland) 1403-25
Ayyubid Caliphate/ Al-Kamil Muhammad I AH 615-35 (1218-38) Al_Qahira Mint AH 627 AV Heavy Dinar 6.62g. The Ayyubids took over from the Fatimid Caliphate. Later the Mamluks would overthrow their Ayyubid masters.
I loved that coin. Katanga. Bought it many years ago when I was young collector and the politics of all fascinated me. Thanks for posting.
A gold tremissis of Sisebutus, king of Hispania and Septimania (the area in the bottom right-hand corner of south-east France, around Nimes). He was king from around 612 AD until his death in Toledo in 625.
When the Fourth Crusade embarked for the Holyland, to retake Jerusalem from the Ayyubids. They instead decided to attack the Byzantines, they laid siege to Constantinople and sacked it/ replaced the Byzantine Emperor with Latin ones. The Genoese set up colonies all around the region/ they had supported the Crusaders. One of the Genoese fifedoms was Chios. Coins where minted that imitated the Venetian AV Zecchini of current Doges. Here is one of mine...
Huna Empire/ Kidarites AV Dinara ND Boxlo Mint 36mm. 7.43g. 12h Coin struck in name of: Vahram I Kushanshah 325-45AD Kidara I 425-57AD /Kidarite Empire (Bactria/ N. India/ W. China) The Kidarites where a branch of the Huna people/also known as the "Huns" These where Semitic hordes that pillaged/ killed/ raped their way from China/ South into Indian subcontinent/ westwards all the way to France/ Italy/ Germany. They where finally stopped by a combined force of Roman+Germanic warriors at Chalôns-sur-Marne in 451AD
There are entities presently engaged in an effort to make Ukraine an extinct sovereign nation. This coin memorialises the Holodomor - the genocide of the Ukrainian people in 1932-1933. I purchased this coin in a bank in Donets'k in 2008-9.